TY  - JOUR
TI  - Understanding language assessment literacy: Developing language assessments
AB  - Language assessment literacy has become a critical competence for a language teacher to have. Accordingly,there are many studies in the literature which have researched different aspects of language assessment literacy(i.e., language assessment training, professional development and language assessment literacy levels oflanguage teachers). However, they have not investigated how language teachers develop appropriate languageassessment according to instructional purposes. Therefore, this study has aimed to reveal the development oflanguage assessment by language teachers. The study was designed as a qualitative study and was carried outwith eight participants working in a Turkish foundation university as English language instructors. Think-aloudprotocols were used to collect data and the collected data were content-analyzed. The results of the study haveindicated that developing language assessments has a critical, student- and course book-centered structure whichhelps to make exams valid in terms of content and construct validity. This structure also helps to have positivewashback effects on students. Its limitations were explained and suggestions for further studies were made.
AU  - YASTIBAŞ, Ahmet Erdost
AU  - TAKKAC, MEHMET
PY  - 2018
JO  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 178
EP  - 193
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/318091
ER  -